Overview of iPad mini - II

Use

IPad mini, for what? Apple responds that everything can be done with an iPad can also be done with this new model. In fact, iOS is strictly identical, even if everything is smaller on the screen. The surprising effect again at first, but we quickly get used to the text and icons smaller.

Overview of iPad mini - I

That is, the iPad mini is available for everyone and not just in some supermarkets. In writing, we also recovered two copies, one in black last week and ordered the other white in an Apple Store.

Presentation

The first contact with the new iPad ... through the box. Apple has been very successful to account for the size "mini" in its product offering box tiny, really small next to that of the standard iPad. At first glance, it almost looks like a book, which is certainly not a coincidence.

iPad mini: the best, despite without its Retina screen - III

Performance

One can imagine an update will be available to correct these few teething problems related to the screen. The balance sheet remains very positive, however, as performance tests conducted by some testers. The iPad mini is only entitled to the A5 chip from the iPad 2, in theory less powerful than the chip A5X the new iPad released in the spring, but tests conducted by Engadget show different results.

IOS 6.0.1 is available for download

Apple offers to download iOS 6.0.1. This update contains improvements dixit Apple and bug fixes. Here is the list of improvements:

- Fixed a problem preventing install on the iPhone 5 updates software wireless mode OTA
- Corrected a problem sometimes causing the display of horizontal lines on the keyboard
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the flash from the camera

IOS 6 beta 4 is available free of YouTube [Update]

Apple released the fourth beta on 8-6-12 iOS 6, the mobile system will be available to the general public in the fall. This version is still reserved for developers and it is obtained from the settings of iPhone or iPad. Count 280 MB for an iPhone 4S, 260 MB for an iPhone 4 or the new iPad.

The Apple TV is also entitled to an update, as well as Xcode, the development tool offered by Apple which is version 4.5 DP4. This version must be retrieved from the Developer Center.

Apple's servers are a little trouble, take your troubles patiently ...

Samsung has already won its lawsuit against Apple

Even if defeated in his two trials against Apple, Samsung wins. The Korean manufacturer has exposed many preproduction iPhone and iPad and the Cupertino forced to reveal some of his secrets best kept. In doing so, Samsung has certainly raised the ire of Judge Lucy Koh, but no matter: after many setbacks, the strategy of scorched earth was the only option.

Chronicles of Service: Mac Pro

At least they seem to be; because it may be entirely different ... "Mackie" was studio technician at a major reseller for 10 years, from 2001 to 2011. A unique position to observe the Apple machines from another angle that of their small or large seeds and defects. Here is the first of these columns on the summer "SAV Mac".

"Apple and its great migrations, remember there was the transition from 68K to PowerPC, Mac OS to Mac OS X and now Apple announced mid-2005 color: the abandonment of PowerPC chips in favor of Intel. The Power Mac G5 and Xserve G5 begin to be replaced in summer 2006, completing the migration processor led to the charge since January of that year. In this case, the Mac Pro that interests us.

Mountain Lion: OS X mature

A year after the release of OS X Lion, Apple launched its successor: Mountain Lion. Few people imagined that Snow Leopard's successor would have a life cycle so short. This timing so tight - unheard of - shows that Apple continues to attach importance to its line of computers. The success of the MacBook Air and we can only assume, the MacBook Pro Retina, shows that Apple's interest to press the fungus.

Apple / Samsung: using preproduction iPhone, iPad and Sony in the middle [update]

New pieces recorded in anticipation of the trial Apple / Samsung which opens July 30 in California, show different iterations of the iPad and iPhone (then, in 2004 for the iPad, which are in some Again the words "iPod"). The Korean took advantage of the way to groom the California, saying the design of the iPhone has been widely influenced by the precepts of design came from Sony. The unpublished photographs show the tracks tested by Apple designers, including forms phone or integration, imagined a time, one foot on the back of the tablet.